Kanthi Uttar Assembly Elections 2016

Dominance of Trinamool Congress in Kanthi Uttar (North) assembly is evident from the fact that party had won all the sixteen assembly constituencies in the Purba Medinipur district in which the Kanthi Uttar (North) is located. And the trend continues to be same with opposition parties in a state of complete disarray. CPM which is trying hard to retrieve its lost ground is faced with internal factionalism and BJP, though buoyed by its performance in the Lok Sabha polls, is still in the category of also-ran in Kanthi North. The party will try to hold on to the vote share which it received in 2014.

Kanthi Uttar Assembly Election Candidates List and Results

Name of the Candidate

Party Name

Results

BANASRI MAITY

AITC

Won103783

CHAKRADHAR MAIKAP

CPM

85207

ASIM DAS

BJP

11945

GOPAL CHANDRA MANNA

BNP

1842

None of the Above

None of the Above

1755

GHORAI RAMPRASAD

BSP

1488

SANDIP KUMAR DAS

SUCI(C)

1164

West Bengal Election

TMC’s Banasri Maity is the sitting legislator of Kanthi North which was won by him in 2011 by defeating sitting CPM MLA Chakradhar Meikap by a comfortable margin of 7955 votes in a bipolar contest. In that election, while 91,528 votes were polled by Banasri Maity, Chakradhar Meikap, a former minister in the Left Front government, secured 83,573 votes. Gour Hari Jana, who entered the fray ion behalf of the BJP, was relegated to the third place with just 5,859 votes.

One of the sixteen assembly constituencies located in the Purba Medinipur district in West Bengal, Kanthi North assembly constituency is formed by the areas covered by Contai-2 block and Debendra, Brajachauli, Kanaidighi, Lauda, Kumirda and Marishda gram panchayats of Contai 3 block as well as Bathuari gram panchayat of Egra-2 block.

Kanthi North is one of the seven assembly segments the combination of which created the parliamentary constituency of Kanthi.